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description: Hit went on dis way twel bimeby, one day, de fus news I know'd der was a row got up in de amen cornder. Who acts: you, I, der, row. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 14

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Hit went on dis way twel bimeby, one day, de fus news I know'd der was a row got up in de amen cornder.

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**Who acts:** you, I, der, row · **What happens:** hit, go, know, be, get up · **To what, where:** fus news, way twel, row, de amen cornder

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, der, row), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:48:14
# text = Hit went on dis way twel bimeby, one day, de fus news I know'd der was a row got up in de amen cornder.
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	twel	twel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	advmod	_	_
13	fus	fus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	der	der	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	amen	amen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cornder	cornder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | fus news |  |  | day |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  | way twel |  | bimeby *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on twel=Location |
| 3 | **know** | present | I | fus news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | would | der | a row |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get up** | past | a row |  |  | de amen cornder |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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